Reference:PreviewLinks: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 10:32, 18 November 2025

Overview
Description:	Enables a page preview on page links shown in a popup
State:	stable	Dependency:	BlueSpice
Developer:	HalloWelt	License:	GPL-2.0-or-later
Type:	BlueSpice	Category:	Rich Articles
Edition:	BlueSpice free, BlueSpice pro, BlueSpice farm, BlueSpice cloud	Version:	5.2+

Features

The extension PreviewLinks replaces the extensions Popups and TextExtracts to provide better accessibility integration.

It provides a popup to users when focusing on a link. The popup shows a page image (if available on the target page) and the first text that can be processed on the page. Headings or special content provided by templates or tags is not included. The text is shown in plain text formatting.

Technical Information

Technical details for BlueSpice cloud can differ in some cases.

Requirements

MediaWiki: 1.42.0

PageImages: *

Integrates into

PreviewLinks

Special pages

User options

Name	Value
previewlinks-show-preview	'1'

Hooks

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+|features=The extension '''PreviewLinks''' replaces the extensions [[mediawikiwiki:Extension:Popups|Popups]] and [[mediawikiwiki:Extension:TextExtracts|TextExtracts]] to provide better accessibility integration.
+It provides a popup to users when focusing on a link. The popup  shows a page image (if available on the target page) and the first text that can be processed on the page.  Headings or special content provided by templates or tags is not included. The text is shown in plain text formatting.
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